Wallace-Brodeur, Ruth

Spending the summer on an island off the coast of Maine, sixteen-year-old Evan grows closer to her grandmother and gains new maturity and self-confidence.

When her older brother is killed in an accident, ten-year-old Tessa and her parents find it difficult to overcome their grief and return to living normally.

Feeling somewhat abandoned by her mother, twelve-year-old Sage is sent to spend the summer at the Maine home of her great-aunts, where she learns about and begins to identify with her family's history.

When ten-year-old Laura moves with her family to yet another new farm, Laura slowly begins to build connections to the place, to her family, and to herself.

Molly tells her parents seven stories about herself and her younger sister, recounting one story for each day of the week.

Nine-year-old Kate, sure she will die in one week because she has pulled out a nose hair, decides to make her last week a good one.

When her older brother is killed in an accident, ten-year-old Tessa and her parents find it difficult to overcome their grief and return to living normally.

Callie has always felt like a misfit in her family but her friendship with an elderly, bedridden, woman helps her sort out some of the confusion she feels about her family and herself.

Although Rosie knows that she has to be home by five o'clock, there are many fascinating sights to delay her on the way.